First announcement: Staples will be selling 3D Printers from their website, and soon right in the store. They’ll be offering the Cube 3D Printer for $1299.
Staples will be selling the Cube 3D Printer for $1299…
Second announcement: The world’s first completely 3D printed gun was shown. There are only 2 non-3D printed parts: a nail used as a firing pin and a six ounce piece of steel put into the gun to make it show up on airport metal detectors.
Forbes got the scoop on the Liberator 3D printed gun…
Check out Forbes for more photos and details.
I’m not going to comment further on these developments other than to say the pace is picking up quickly. Desktop Manufacturing is a reality today. Almost anyone can own the means of production.
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Read some reviews regarding the Cube 3-d printer after reading your post. Seems it can be a finicky beast with mixed results (problematic touch-screen, mixed quality on the prints, etc.). But I still think it might be a great way to get younger folks interested in designing and machining. It’s also at a similar price to a laptop or desktop computer.
A number of commenter’s on those reviews mentioned the MakerBot as a great 3-d printer for home use…though it comes in at twice the cost. Ouch.
Either way, with growing interest there will be competitors and hopefully that’ll drive up some of the quality and drive down the price. I look forward to watching this develop in the days ahead…